The good news: Google's upgraded AI search is better than the (less useful than they used to be) 10 Blue Links. Not so good: One more traffic-sucking blow for websites and online publications. www.wired.com/story/even-i...
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Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
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Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search | WIRED wired.com
4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup wired.com
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened wired.com
AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In wired.com
Europe Is Fed Up and Wants Its Own AI wired.com
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Here's a shattering Jeff Dean fact: Google's top scientist, along with Sanjay Ghemawat and 2 other top AI researcher are leaving Google to form Discovery Loop, a startup that hopes to automate the scientific method so AI can create breakthroughs in multiple fields. www.wired.c…
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- Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le.
- The Delaware Public Benefit Corporation will start by automating machine learning research, then expand into hardware design, drug discovery, and clean energy.
- Alphabet shares reportedly fell about 5% as Demis Hassabis moved to chair and Koray Kavukcuoglu took over as DeepMind SVP.
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The recent AI agent breakthrough is just as big a bang as ChatGPT. Only techies realize this now but eventually no one will be able to ignore it. My report from inside this huge shift. www.wired.com/story/how-ai...
Ever wonder who posts those first-person tales that start with ragebait and end in triumph for the writer and shame for the adversary? And why? www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...
Paris' big Vivatech conference was all about "sovereignty." Speaker after speaker griped about U.S. dominance, some offering plans to change things. Europe has a long way to go to compete in AI, but it has no choice--especially because of Trump. www.wired.com/story/europe...
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